Featured Maps
Six WWII "NEWSMAP" Issues
1943
Pictured is a poster done by Theodore Geisel., Verso is a map by Richard Edes HarrisonPrinted on both sides with very attractive graphics. Issues include work by well-known artists such as Al Capp and Theodore Geisel (not yet “Dr Seuss&rdq...
Plan de Paris
1927
Karasz's design and the vivid color printing used for this large--37 x 27 inches---map of Paris are especially unusual and striking. All of the principal avenues of the City are clearly depicted and appear heightened with gold color finish that enhan...
Ollie Hammond's Steak Houses: Dinner Menu
1948
Dinner menu/pictorial map for March 25th,1948. Menu in printed in brown inkThe pictorial map is of the Los Angeles region and beyond. Has inset views of the 3 Ollie Hammond Steakhouses. Vibrant colorThe restaurant chain began in the 1930's and lasted...
BART Opens Embarcadero. First Port o'call in San Francisco.
1976
This charming bird’s-eye-view of downtown San Francisco looks north from above Market St. towards North Beach and Telegraph Hill. It announces and celebrates the opening of the Embarcadero Bart station, which took place on May 27th, 1976. This op...
The Best Little Whore Houses in Nevada
c1985
Pictorial map of Nevada, illustrating the location of 36 brothels around the state.Map dating based on exitence of Mustang Ranch II, which was built around 1983....
Balgownie Golf Links. New Zealand
1909
Offering at public auction of a subdivision in Waganui New Zealand (SW porti...
East Africa. Land of Sunshine
1949
This lively map of East Africa, includes modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda. Centered on the Rift Valley, which is colored in a darker green, the map covers from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to...
Leo Belgicus, one of only two known examples by Jacob van Doetecum
1630
Extremely rare, one of only two known examples of this separately published map, first published by Johan van Doetecum in 1598. The plate was still in van Doetecum's possession in 1626, when an inventory was made of his stock after the death of his wife Magd...
The first map dedicated to Australia in English
1744-1748
Tasman’s map of New Holland was first published in Melchisedech Thevenot’s 'Relations de divers voyages curieux' in 1663 and then revised until 1696. “Thevenot ensured that his book included maps at every juncture. Of t...
Untitled Map of the World
1504
Probably an intermediate state of Reisch's unusual world map. He published his first world map in his ‘Margarita Philosophica’ of 1503. This map is a reduced version, with four rather than twelve windheads, published in Gruninger...
